VN - Ren'Py - Tales from Afar [Issue 6] [Nemiegs]

Short summary:


This is not a game, its a series of comics, without any choices, centered around the public humiliation and abuse.



Good Things

• renders are hit or miss, but some are pretty good
• animations are often good
• initially intriguing steampunk setting that’s unusual

Bad points

• story makes no sense
• no character development - just a series of humiliations, so hard to care what happens
• not a game, no choices

While Special Request is one of the best games on the site this one skips all of the build up and progression that makes SR great. Corruption and embarrassment themes work because we engage with the character and experience how one thing leads to another but this game skips all of that and goes straight to the most depraved scenario. It isn't a bad game but it also isn't Special.

If you like male domination, this one is for you. It depicts a better world, as thing should be, and not the way they are IRL.
Visuals are quite good. It is rather uniquely structured, needs a bit time to get used to.
The writing is nothing special, clearly not one of its strong points, but everything else is well done, it has variety in characters, and in this day and age where esg dei infests every minute of our lives, a rather brave premise. This should be really just 4 stars because of the writing, but since it is not the usual n+1th same concept, it gets one extra for the theme.

Bioshock Infinite Penetration lol
Could you imagine this content in that franchise in current year? I would be 100% behind Nemiegs becoming head dev, would certainly spice things up!
Tales from Afar is male domination defined. The highlights are episode 5 and 6, great models and animations, not really a fan of the fat gingers but hey it is what it is.
My advice would be more time spent on the renders and animations where it really shines, less on the writing where you'll never please some people.
The latest episode is what sex education should be, the dolls modelled after the teacher that she sees everywhere is hilarious.
Keep up the good work.

How do you rate a game that you think is just crap?
Although, I do find the idea of a Steam Punk scenario interesting.
Renderings in principle from my point of view: 4 out of 5.
Story, if you can call it a story at all: 1 out of 5.
In my opinion written like elementary school grade F.
Sorry DEV, just scrap the whole thing, keep the rendering, find a story writer and do a rebuild.

This is a misogynistic tale told by good renders and dog shit writing.
I hate it.

This could have been a nice little fantasy where sex drives society forward in every instance. But instead, it is a collection of odd situations with the most god-awful writing I've come across on this site so far.

I generally don't review things, and I prefer to review when I'm positive about things. But the fact that this game has a rating of 4,5 at the time of writing is very misleading.

I'll leave it with two stars, one for effort and one for the potential the game still carries. But man, does this turd need a lot of polish before it's worthy of anyone's time.

i dont know how the dev managed to turn this premise into something so boring, especially with graphics like that but he managed it alright.

well he certainly put more thought into the creativity of the world building than the sex scenes. i dont think i was ever this bored with a game of this level of graphics but i guess it's a first.

somehow the specific situations lost all eroticism from the possible premise. it's kind of a genius, how to make a sex scene as bad as possible, even if i tried very hard i probably couldn't manage it, so for only that you should play it to see the genius at work.

animation is fine, but penis and sex is somehow not animated well either.


plus having 4 short unrelated stories doesn't help either. but even very short stories could light up ppl's imagination, and the intro here gave enough context, yet it's still impossible to care about any of the protagonists. maybe because the intro tried to be too serious/complex, yet the whole game feels like a dumb parody... so it gives conflicting messages. idk. it's just bad.

This is a really interesting and stylistically original concept. Despite the fact that I don't care for some of the "attitudinal" (philosophical?) stuff...the objectification of and cursory treatment of the women and the whole lack of any kind of a romantic (human) atmosphere...to me it's a bit like watching animals interacting in a zoo I nevertheless find the originality and quirky, sort of whimsical atmosphere and approach to the subject matter excitingly refreshing.

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't feel I'm here to actually judge the subject matter itself and what is and isn't included in it. I feel I am here to assess the quality of the novel as told and the effectiveness of the way it is presented. Just because I may not like the subject-matter a whole lot, I don't see why I should penalise the creator in my Review. I mean why should his creation be damaged because he didn't put in (because he didn't want to) something I might have wanted him to put in, but that someone else might not have wanted to see in it? Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. Don't mark down because you didn't like the story, because you don't agree with what he/she put in it, mark down because he/she didn't present or tell what they did want to tell very well, clearly or effectively. To apply the latter approach would be like saying you think Monty Python is rubbish because the humor's absurd, you don't like absurd humor and it would have been better if they'd put a bit of standup comedy in it. Disliking the story or selected content, in my perception, is what the Discussion part of this page seems to surely be for.

For me, the Review section should be to assess how well the story, as intended, has been presented and in this respect I find no fault whatsoever, in fact, the opposite. The story is highly intriguing, the rendering is spotless and consistently impeccable. The characters are wholly credible given the circumstances and conventions that dictate their actions, reactions and feelings. The dialogue conveys the nature and attitudes of its characters with the requisite degree of quirkiness yet, as I said, natural credibility, as befits the overwhelming atmosphere exuded by the environment as a whole.

So as I said whilst it's not really my kind of "thing", I do think that for its originality, its unconventionality, how conceivable it may be, the kind of story it attempts to tell and the way in which the whole novel is put together to entertain is immaculately and exceptionally well done. Totally laudable and easily, to me, meriting my five star rating.

Tales from Afar is a series of short stories about a society with a steampunk appearance suffering through a reactionary societal backlash forcing the female populace into a bunch of non-con orgies.

Your mileage on this one will vary greatly based on your preferences. The writing isn't very good, mostly acting as a quick and dirty excuse to turn housewives into depraved sluts through administrative red tape and rape. The characters in the stories are just their roles with very little personality. There's a lot of telling instead of showing and no investigation into the steampunk nature of the world, though it's a cool look.

All in all, it's really going to come down to whether you like free use, incest, hard ntr and mind break. The art looks just like it does in the screen shots and there's some decent but not incredible animations of the same. If you like the kinks, go for it. If you don't, steer clear.

I generally don't look at kinetic novels, but this caught my eye, and it's excellent.

It features a steampunk world, in which maledom is currently effectively in place and women are used freely; some perverse decorum is maintained, but can be seen as just another way of control and humiliation.

Animations, renders and H scenes are excellent.

I would certainly wish for a fully fledged VN with choices based on this. A male MC would be great, too, even if unlikely.

Nice drawings, good figures
Story and caracteres are Excellent
It looks very promising so don’t change anothing
Continu in this way
Still wainting for more And don't abandon this project
5 Stars - All in one Super !

Well made, technically, but, of course, far more importantly, it's good sexual fiction. The author is someone who understands what kind of sexual role play (that's what "porn" is, that's why the people in it are called "actors") turns him on, and he has the balls to put it all on paper.

He's not trying to put together some vanilla fantasy he thinks people will like him for. He's giving us what he thinks will turn us on, sexually.

Also, there's no agenda. Obviously. You can't seriously think that the author of a porn fantasy is trying to present us with a blueprint of what the real world should look like. No one with an inkling of wits would think that what turns you on sexually is what should inform your political views.

This is in a far away world, people. Very far. Whole other planet and shit. So get a hold of yourselves.

Very well made, both in terms of renders and world building/storytelling. There are some minor issues like textures that appear extremely stretched etc. As for the NTR, I'm not usually a fan but this story/game does not really have a main "protagonist" as such so it doesn't really bother me. That might be the one weakness of TfA; it is hard to get attached to any of the characters as you're not really made to care very much about any of them. I don't know whether this is by design or not.

If you are a fan of humiliation/maledom you'll definitely enjoy this one. If not - well there probably isn't much here for you except great visuals. Fortunately for me, this hit just the right spot!

TLDR: Makes me gag.

I am ok with a lot of stuff, but this feels like porn with an agenda. And while that may not mean much here, it is deeply misogynistic.

Maybe I am just losing patience with all the incel/harem stuff flooding the site, but at some point you need to move beyond your average male power fantasy, do you not?

2* for the art, even though all the women look like the protagonist of that "other game", but beyond that there is little there. It is short stories of characters you don't know or care about and they are raped because society says so (see Handmaiden's Tale with less skill and more porn).

Great... sounds fun.

This is my Rating for this Game ..

Pros:
+ This is a must for NTR fans.
+ Fantastic Rendering
+ Never know what happens next
+ Playing this is more fun then watching a skin flic.
+ Seems like it never stops.
+ very hard to predict what happens next.
-Very Realistic Graphics

Cons:
- Nothing

Conclusion:
Just loved this Novel, wanted it to continue forever, the best that I went through for a long time, lots of detail and love went into to this Game which I can`t get enough of, Just hope to see more of this soon.

Grade A+ from me, but don`t take my word for it, just try it yourself.
Worth the Download.